{"id":281229,"date":"2026-05-06T12:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/281229\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:25:09","slug":"harris-county-burglary-suspect-shot-killed-by-homeowner-constable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/281229\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris County burglary suspect shot, killed by homeowner: constable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">HARRIS COUNTY, Texas &#8211; An investigation is underway after Harris County authorities say a burglary suspect was shot and killed by a homeowner near Klein.<\/p>\n<p>   Burglary suspect shot by homeowner\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Constable Mark Herman reports deputies were called early Wednesday morning to a home on Spring Creek Oaks Court in the Spring Creek Oaks neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">A homeowner reported the suspect entered their home through the backdoor and the homeowner fired shots during the incident.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The suspect left the home and was found by deputies in the bayou area behind the home with a gunshot wound, Constable Herman said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">EMS was called to the scene, but the suspect was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">According to officials, the homeowner was detained as the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">It has not been confirmed if anyone else was at the home at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information provided by Harris County Constable Precinct 4 Mark Herman&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harris County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRIS COUNTY, Texas &#8211; An investigation is underway after Harris County authorities say a burglary suspect was shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,405,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-281229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-harris-county","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}